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    |  As of v2.0, spaCy comes with a built-in visualization suite. For more
    |  info and examples, see the usage guide on
    |  #[+a("/usage/visualizers") visualizing spaCy].


+h(3, "displacy.serve") displacy.serve
    +tag method
    +tag-new(2)

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    |  Serve a dependency parse tree or named entity visualization to view it
    |  in your browser. Will run a simple web server.

+aside-code("Example").
    import spacy
    from spacy import displacy
    nlp = spacy.load('en')
    doc1 = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')
    doc2 = nlp(u'This is another sentence.')
    displacy.serve([doc1, doc2], style='dep')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description", "Default"])
    +row
        +cell #[code docs]
        +cell list or #[code Doc]
        +cell Document(s) to visualize.
        +cell

    +row
        +cell #[code style]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Visualization style, #[code 'dep'] or #[code 'ent'].
        +cell #[code 'dep']

    +row
        +cell #[code page]
        +cell bool
        +cell Render markup as full HTML page.
        +cell #[code True]

    +row
        +cell #[code minify]
        +cell bool
        +cell Minify HTML markup.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row
        +cell #[code options]
        +cell dict
        +cell #[+a("#options") Visualizer-specific options], e.g. colors.
        +cell #[code {}]

    +row
        +cell #[code manual]
        +cell bool
        +cell
            |  Don't parse #[code Doc] and instead, expect a dict or list of
            |  dicts. #[+a("/usage/visualizers#manual-usage") See here]
            |  for formats and examples.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row
        +cell #[code port]
        +cell int
        +cell Port to serve visualization.
        +cell #[code 5000]

+h(3, "displacy.render") displacy.render
    +tag method
    +tag-new(2)

p Render a dependency parse tree or named entity visualization.

+aside-code("Example").
    import spacy
    from spacy import displacy
    nlp = spacy.load('en')
    doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')
    html = displacy.render(doc, style='dep')

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description", "Default"])
    +row
        +cell #[code docs]
        +cell list or #[code Doc]
        +cell Document(s) to visualize.
        +cell

    +row
        +cell #[code style]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Visualization style, #[code 'dep'] or #[code 'ent'].
        +cell #[code 'dep']

    +row
        +cell #[code page]
        +cell bool
        +cell Render markup as full HTML page.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row
        +cell #[code minify]
        +cell bool
        +cell Minify HTML markup.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row
        +cell #[code jupyter]
        +cell bool
        +cell
            |  Explicitly enable "#[+a("http://jupyter.org/") Jupyter] mode" to
            |  return markup ready to be rendered in a notebook.
        +cell detected automatically

    +row
        +cell #[code options]
        +cell dict
        +cell #[+a("#options") Visualizer-specific options], e.g. colors.
        +cell #[code {}]

    +row
        +cell #[code manual]
        +cell bool
        +cell
            |  Don't parse #[code Doc] and instead, expect a dict or list of
            |  dicts. #[+a("/usage/visualizers#manual-usage") See here]
            |  for formats and examples.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row("foot")
        +cell returns
        +cell unicode
        +cell Rendered HTML markup.
        +cell

+h(3, "displacy_options") Visualizer options

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    |  The #[code options] argument lets you specify additional settings for
    |  each visualizer. If a setting is not present in the options, the default
    |  value will be used.

+h(4, "options-dep") Dependency Visualizer options

+aside-code("Example").
    options = {'compact': True, 'color': 'blue'}
    displacy.serve(doc, style='dep', options=options)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description", "Default"])
    +row
        +cell #[code collapse_punct]
        +cell bool
        +cell
            |  Attach punctuation to tokens. Can make the parse more readable,
            |  as it prevents long arcs to attach punctuation.
        +cell #[code True]

    +row
        +cell #[code compact]
        +cell bool
        +cell "Compact mode" with square arrows that takes up less space.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row
        +cell #[code color]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Text color (HEX, RGB or color names).
        +cell #[code '#000000']

    +row
        +cell #[code bg]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Background color (HEX, RGB or color names).
        +cell #[code '#ffffff']

    +row
        +cell #[code font]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Font name or font family for all text.
        +cell #[code 'Arial']

    +row
        +cell #[code offset_x]
        +cell int
        +cell Spacing on left side of the SVG in px.
        +cell #[code 50]

    +row
        +cell #[code arrow_stroke]
        +cell int
        +cell Width of arrow path in px.
        +cell #[code 2]

    +row
        +cell #[code arrow_width]
        +cell int
        +cell Width of arrow head in px.
        +cell #[code 10] / #[code 8] (compact)

    +row
        +cell #[code arrow_spacing]
        +cell int
        +cell Spacing between arrows in px to avoid overlaps.
        +cell #[code 20] / #[code 12] (compact)

    +row
        +cell #[code word_spacing]
        +cell int
        +cell Horizontal spacing between words and arcs in px.
        +cell #[code 45]

    +row
        +cell #[code distance]
        +cell int
        +cell Distance between words in px.
        +cell #[code 175] / #[code 85] (compact)

+h(4, "displacy_options-ent") Named Entity Visualizer options

+aside-code("Example").
    options = {'ents': ['PERSON', 'ORG', 'PRODUCT'],
               'colors': {'ORG': 'yellow'}}
    displacy.serve(doc, style='ent', options=options)

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description", "Default"])
    +row
        +cell #[code ents]
        +cell list
        +cell
            |  Entity types to highlight (#[code None] for all types).
        +cell #[code None]

    +row
        +cell #[code colors]
        +cell dict
        +cell
            |  Color overrides. Entity types in uppercase should be mapped to
            |  color names or values.
        +cell #[code {}]

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    |  By default, displaCy comes with colours for all
    |  #[+a("/api/annotation#named-entities") entity types supported by spaCy].
    |  If you're using custom entity types, you can use the #[code colors]
    |  setting to add your own colours for them.
